After yesterday's tutorial - I found I need to be able to test my project on a separate audience rather than just students and other lecturers - just to have a series of people who are not necessarily creative. I also need to think about how exactly the audience is going to interact with the visuals. I will be conducting this research this weekend and reporting.
On another note, one of the fine art lecturers where I work gave me a link to some works of artist Wangechi Mutu - which I have found mesmerising, and of great inspiration to my work.
"Much of Mutu's work to date has been concerned with the myriad forms of violence and misrepresentation visited upon women, especially black women, in the contemporary world. Her paintings and collages often feature writhing female forms, their skin an eruption of buboes, mutant appendices like gun shafts or machine gears sprouting from the sockets of joints, their bodies half human, half hyena. They offer a glimpse at the perversions of the body and the mind wrought by forces active in the oppression of women.
Mutu commonly works on paper or Mylar polyester film. Manipulating ink and acrylic paint into pools of colour she carefully applies to her surfaces imagery sampled from disparate sources- Vogue, National Geographic, hunting, motorbike and porn magazines. The resulting works are a rebuke to the conventions of aesthetics and ethnography and eroticism that underpin such publications, offering instead an existence that is riotously free of biological determinism or psychological conditioning. " (Victoria-miro.com, 2011)
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| a dragon kiss always ends in ashes, 2007 |
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| Non, je ne regrette rien, 2007 |
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